Billiard trajectories inside Cones
Dynamical Systems
2025-02-05 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
Recently it was proved that every billiard trajectory inside a convex cone has a finite number of reflections. Here, by a convex cone, we mean a cone whose section with some hyperplane is a strictly convex closed submanifold of the hyperplane with nondegenerate second fundamental form. In this paper, we prove the existence of convex cones admitting billiard trajectories with infinitely many reflections in finite time. We also estimate the number of reflections of billiard trajectories in elliptic cones in using two first integrals.
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@article{arxiv.2502.01997,
title = {Billiard trajectories inside Cones},
author = {Andrey E. Mironov and Siyao Yin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01997},
year = {2025}
}
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25 pages